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California Now Protects Seriously Ill Patients Who Use Medical Cannabis

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 07/10/2015 - 21:36

Governor Jerry Brown signed the first of a series of pending Assembly bills related to medical marijuana earlier this week. Assembly Bill 258 will prevent California hospitals from denying organ transplants to patients who use medical marijuana. The new law will take effect on January 1. 

Americans for Safe Access (ASA), a medical marijuana advocacy group, has claimed that hundreds of patients have been denied life-saving organ transplants because they have legally treated their symptoms with medical cannabis. 
 

click to enlargeAssemblymember Mark Levine.
  • Assemblymember Mark Levine.

Brown signed Assembly Bill 258 without much ceremony other than a short announcement from his press office. Assemblymember Mark Levine, D-San Rafael, who authored the bill, said the new law is a simple matter of fairness. “Arcane public health policies treat medical cannabis patients as drug abusers,” Levine wrote in...

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